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# Staff Software Engineer - Detection and Response Platform

- **Company:** Verkada Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Security Information and Event Management, Information Technology, Golang
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-detection-and-response-platform-verkada-7990267

## About the Role

* Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
 * 7-10+ years of experience as a software engineer, security engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant.
 * Experience building robust and scalable products in public clouds (we use AWS)
 * Proficiency in programming in Golang or Python
 * Familiarity in continuous integration and Infrastructure as Code
 * Experience designing, and optimizing high throughput ETL pipelines
 * Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies
 * Excellent collaborative skills
 * Outstanding written and verbal communication
 * Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

## Description

Behind the scenes, we're a team of computer scientists, hardware engineers and experienced founders who saw a chance to make a real impact. We're united by the challenge of building beautiful products, designed for real people-and by our commitment to using technology responsibly. We believe keeping data private and secure is core to our safety as individuals, businesses and communities and we put great care into building systems that embody our values as people. Likewise, many of Silicon Valley's top investors believe in us: we're backed by Sequoia Capital, FirstRound, Meritech and Siemens (Next47)., * Build, operate and improve Verkada's Security Monitoring, Detection and Response infrastructure

 * Onboard new systems and services to our SIEM
 * Tune alerts to maintain high signal
 * Automate data enrichment and incident response workflows
 * Facilitate incident response processes and tabletop exercises
 * Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader Verkada security program
 * Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
 * Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledge


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